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Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Ep. 71: Best Books of 2020 and Bookish Superlatives with Susie from @NovelVisits

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson

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4.9 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 71, Susie Boutry (@NovelVisits) and I share our favorite 2020 books (overall and by genre) and our picks for tons of bookish superlatives.

This post contains affiliate links, through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!).

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Highlights

  • 2020 Podcast Overview (including favorite and most downloaded episodes) 
  • Overview of our reading years (including the impact of COVID-19)
  • Favorite books of 2020 (trends, overall, by genre)
  • 2020 Superlative Awards

Our Favorite Books of 2020 (Overall and by Genre) [19:31]

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Susie

2020 Superlatives [45:01]

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Susie

Other Books Mentioned

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About Susie

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Susie has loved reading for as long as she can remember. Some of her fondest childhood memories involve long afternoons at the library and then reading late into the night. More than ten years ago, she began journaling about the books I read and turned that passion into writing about books. Her first forays were as a guest reviewer on a friend’s blog, but she soon realized she wanted to be reviewing and talking about books on a blog of my own. From there, Novel Visits was born. That was in 2016 and, though the learning curve was steep, she loves being a part of the book community. Novel Visits focuses on new novel reviews (print and audio), previews of upcoming releases, and musings on all things bookish.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Sarah's Bookshelves Live. I'm Sarah of the blog Sarah's Bookshelves. Each week I'm

0:15.5

talking with one bookish guest about two old books they love, two new books they love, one book they don't love, and one new

0:22.7

release they're excited about. We're going to get real and sometimes a bit snarky about all things

0:28.3

books. If you like the show, I'd really love your support. Spread the word to your reader friends,

0:33.8

subscribe to the show, rate and review it wherever you listen to podcasts, or get bonus podcast episodes by

0:41.2

supporting the podcast on Patreon. There's a link in the show notes and in my Instagram bio to my

0:47.5

Patreon page. Let's get rolling. Hey everyone, welcome to the Sarah's Bookshelves Live 2020 year-end wrap-up episode. I've got Susie from

0:57.7

Novel Visits, who is one of my reading twins and a five-time podcast guest here with me today.

1:04.3

And y'all, I just have to tell you, this is the third time we are attempting to record this.

1:11.8

Suspect this is going to work.

1:13.8

I hope we get it right this time.

1:15.4

I hope we get it right this time.

1:16.8

This has never happened before in the history of the podcast.

1:19.6

The connection over Skype was so bad that we literally recorded three quarters of an

1:25.6

episode, scrapped the entire thing, and tried again after

1:29.1

that, didn't even attempt to record that time. And then now today, I think we have the problem

1:34.6

fixed, but fingers crossed. And I appreciate your patience, Susie. No problem. And y'all,

1:41.1

if you don't follow Susie yet, go do that. If you like my reading taste,

1:46.4

you will also like hers. You want to tell everyone where to find your blog and Instagram?

1:50.8

My blog is Novelvisits.com, and you can find me on Instagram at Novelvisits.

1:57.4

And I will link to those in the show notes as well. So we have got a lot to talk about today.

2:02.7

Broadly, today we are going to cover some high-level reflections on the podcast for 2020.

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